S4 Mr. W. S, L. Szyrma on the Relation of tha 
Mrok, murky. Land and Water are both Slavonic (and neither 
Latin) Land and Woda; Brother and Sister, Brat and Siostra, &c. 
(4.) The most striking similarity is in words of plainly Sanscrit 
origm, e. g. 
Slavonic. 
Sanscrit. 
Slavojiic. 
Sanscrit. 
lada 
Oda 
Eats. 
Lekko 
Lakku 
Light. 
Odin 
Adimo 
One. 
Lubo 
Loab 
Love. 
]\[iaso 
Amisca 
Meat. 
Mat 
Mada 
Mother. 
Brvvy 
Bruwo 
Brow. 
Miod 
Modu 
Meed. 
Dwer 
D war 
Door. 
Nagi 
Nahnaha 
Naked. 
Syn 
Sunia 
Son. 
Nos 
Nasa 
Nose.'!* 
This affinity seems to arise more in the Anglo-Saxon, than the 
other elements of our tongue. Thus : — " Witan " is an old Polish 
word for a council of wise men, from Wice. Gody means festivity 
in Slavonic, hence our " Gaudy days." 
So-called Saxon names are often Slavonic. The Wilti were a 
Luzacian tribe, and perhaps conquered TFiZ^shire with Cerdic. 
Wilton, Tiverton, and many other West of England names, appear 
to be derived from Slavonic colonists — the latter a Slavonic colony 
from the Dnieper. 
Even in Cornish names we see distinct traces of common Aryan 
or European origin : " Tor,'" a hill, may be connected with the 
Polish " Gora" the Bohemian and Sanscrit " iJor." 
If we take a passage out of the English, Latin, Greek, and Polish 
versions of the Scriptures, which would be the fairest tests of affinity, 
we shall see how much nearer our Anglo-Saxon, of which we all 
know that the Gospels of our version was mostly composed, is to 
Slavonic than are the classical tongues. Taking the two first verses 
of St. John's Gospel, as a test, we find in English 9 distinct and 
separate words of which 8 have Slavonic roots — the only exception, 
*' Word" being derived from the Latin Verhum. In the Latin 
* " i ' Origine des Slaves."" By Abp. Siestrzencewicz. 
Peteiobiu-g, 1824 [p. 35.] 
